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Mageia 7 MGASA-2019-0392 Critical: Dnsmasq Memory Leak Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
A dnsmasq upgrade for Mageia resolves a significant memory leak issue that could lead to denial of service vulnerabilities. Explore the complete information.
A vulnerability was found in dnsmsq through version 2.90, where the memory leak allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DHCP...

Summary

A vulnerability was found in dnsmsq through version 2.90, where the memory leak allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DHCP response creation. (CVE-2019-14834)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25854

- http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2019-December/006208.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14834

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service memory leak dnsmasq Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/dnsmasq-2.80-5.2.mga7

Severity
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Publication date: 15 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0392.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14834

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service memory leak dnsmasq Mageia

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